"Chart: Global Investment In Renewables Hits Record Even As US Falters"
"Globally, investors are pouring more money into renewable energy than ever — even as they pull back on spending in the U.S."
Source: Canary Media, 10/06/2025
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Study Shows The World Has Far More Damaging Fires Than In The 1980s
"Earth’s nastiest and costliest wildfires are blazing four times more often now than they did in the 1980s because of human-caused climate change and people moving closer to wildlands, a new study found."
Source: AP, 10/06/2025"Advocates Raise Alarm Over PFAS Pollution From Datacenters Amid AI Boom"
"Tech companies’ use of PFAS gas at facilities may mean datacenters’ climate impact is worse than previously thought"
"Datacenters’ electricity demands have been accused of delaying the US’s transition to clean energy and requiring fossil fuel plants to stay online, while their high level of water consumption has also raised alarm. Now public health advocates fear another environmental problem could be linked to them – PFAS “forever chemical” pollution.
Source: Guardian, 10/06/2025Trump’s Hatred For Renewables Putting US Behind The Rest Of The World
"As well as embracing ‘beautiful coal’, the president has set about obliterating clean energy projects"
Source: Guardian, 10/06/2025"‘Dominant’: 32 Chunk Crowned Champion In ‘Biggest Fat Bear Week Yet’"
"After a record-breaking week of public voting, Katmai national park and preserve in Alaska has announced the winner of its “biggest Fat Bear Week yet”."
Source: Guardian, 10/06/2025"White House To Slash $8B In Funding For Blue States"
"White House budget director Russ Vought on Wednesday said the Trump administration will cancel almost $8 billion in federal funding for green projects, directly targeting 16 states that did not vote for President Donald Trump in the presidential election."
Source: E&E News, 10/03/2025Explosion Left a Black Town Contaminated. Politics Are Stunting the Cleanup.
"On the banks of the Tangipahoa River in South Louisiana, thick oil slicks and chemical odors ripple across the water. Five weeks after an oil and lubricant facility exploded, sending oily soot as far as 40 miles away, Black residents still complain that the chemical smell is so strong that it wakes them up in the middle of the night."
Source: Capital B, 10/03/2025"Calif. Sanctions Stark Disparities in Pesticide Exposure During Pregnancy"
"If you’re young, pregnant and Latina, chances are you live near agricultural fields sprayed with higher levels of brain-damaging organophosphate pesticides."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/03/2025"Duke Energy Backs Off Renewables After North Carolina Cuts Climate Goal"
"The state repealed the utility’s 2030 emissions target in July. Duke’s response? A plan to slash solar and wind, double down on gas — and burn more coal."
Source: Canary Media, 10/03/2025"EPA Moves to Prioritize Review of New Chemicals for Data Centers"
"The Trump administration has begun prioritizing the review of new, potentially hazardous chemicals used in data centers that public health advocates and environmental attorneys warn could endanger workers, communities and the environment."
Source: Inside Climate News, 10/03/2025EPA, EES Coke Battery $135 Million Apart Penalties As Pollution Trial Ends
"When faced with testimony that Zug Island’s EES Coke Battery is one of Michigan’s worst sulfur dioxide polluters, an attorney for the facility said Monday: “So what?” The DTE Energy-owned facility was “permitted to do so,” said Michael Hindelang, attorney for the utility and its subsidiaries that are defendants in the EPA’s Clean Air Act lawsuit over the emissions."
Source: Planet Detroit, 10/03/2025"From Bombs To Glass: Hanford Site Can Now Transform Nuclear Waste"
"For much of the 20th century, a sprawling complex in the desert of southeastern Washington state turned out most of the plutonium used in the nation’s nuclear arsenal, from the first atomic bomb to the arms race that fueled the Cold War. Now, after decades of planning and billions of dollars of investment, the site is turning liquid nuclear and chemical waste at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation into a much safer substance: glass."
Source: AP, 10/03/2025EPA Ends Greenhouse Gas Data Collection. Who Will Step Up to Fill the Gap?
"The Environmental Protection Agency announced earlier this month that it would stop making polluting companies report their greenhouse gas emissions to it, eliminating a crucial tool the US uses to track emissions and form climate policy. Climate NGOs say their work could help plug some of the data gap, but they and other experts fear the EPA’s work can’t be fully matched."
Source: WIRED, 10/03/2025"Trump Coal Plan Includes Private Land Unlikely to be Mined"
"Nearly 85% of the 13.1 million acres the Trump administration is opening to coal leasing is private or state-owned and unlikely to be mined anytime soon, except for land adjacent to existing coal mines, analysts say."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 10/03/2025"The Resistance Rangers Want Your Help in Protecting National Parks"
"On March 1, under a clear sky, hundreds of people flocked to Colorado’s Rocky Mountain National Park—not to picnic but to protest. Two weeks earlier, the National Park Service had fired roughly 1,000 employees."
Source: Sierra, 10/03/2025
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